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Farming Today Episodes

  1. 30/08/22 - Sea lice, harvest robot, farming in peat, bovine TB

    Sea lice control, peat ban, harvest robots, bovine TB.

  2. 29.08.2022 Soldiering On: from fighting to farming

    The ex-army major who returned to his family farm after being medically discharged.

  3. Farming Today This Week 27/08/22: Cost of Food; Grain Trade; Land Use

    From farm to fork: We investigate what's causing food prices to rise.

  4. 26/08/22 - Fertiliser, food prices, reviving a Scottish island

    Fertiliser and carbon dioxide, food prices, reviving farming on a Scottish island.

  5. 25/08/2022 Grain Trade, Organic Grazing, Rent a Robot

    Should grain companies making profits while food prices rise face a windfall tax?

  6. 24/08/22 Methane Emissions, Hay Yields, Cost of Food

    Call for evidence on how much new kinds of livestock feed can reduce methane emissions.

  7. 23/08/22 - Carbon neutral meat processing, labour costs, river pollution

    Carbon neutral meat processing, labour costs in farming, river pollution report.

  8. 22/08/2022

    The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

  9. 20/08/22 Farming Today This Week: Fishing bans, Seasonal labour and Sheep farming

    Caz Graham reflects on the biggest farming stories from the past week.

  10. 19/08/22 Eco food labelling, sheep on drought resistant lucerne, farm shop closes

    An eco-label on food to tell us how environmentally friendly it is - could it really work?

  11. 18/08/22 Rules relaxed to help farmers feed livestock in drought, sheep in the uplands.

    Land set aside for nature to be cut or grazed early to help feed livestock in the drought.

  12. 17/08/33 - A prototype land use framework, seasonal farm safety, rare breed sheep

    A prototype framework for land use in England, and farm safety advice after a viral video.

  13. 16/08/22 Seasonal workers, Sheep's milk cheese, Drought support

    Investigation into claims migrant workers took on £5000 of debt to pick British fruit.

  14. 15/08/22 Broccoli crop at risk after water abstraction ban; thin pasture for cows; sheep

    Farmers in Fife in Scotland are banned from taking river water to irrigate their crops.

  15. 13/08/22 Farming Today This Week: Crop fires, Livestock welfare, Rydal Show

    How are farmers and their animals coping with the sweltering temperatures?

  16. 12/08/22 - Livestock welfare in extreme hot weather, Rydal Country Show, Glorious 12th: start of grouse shooting season

    Calls for the government to legislate on livestock welfare in extreme hot weather.

  17. Poor mobile coverage, New Zealand trade deal, Blackcurrant harvest

    Poor rural mobile signal delays 999 emergency call for crop fire.

  18. 10/08/22 - Combine harvester fires, soil science, pea harvest

    Fires in farm machinery are up by 35%. Caz Graham finds out why.

  19. 09/08/2022 Deer management, Harvest weather, Protein ice-cream

    Caz Graham finds out about government plans for a review of deer management.

  20. 08/08/2022 - Reservoirs, Vertical farming, Harvest

    Reservoirs, vertical farming, and harvest 2022.

  21. 06/08/22 Farming Today This Week: Farm tenants, Veg growers, Seasonal worker folk song

    Veg growers warn the sector is under pressure because of labour and water shortages.

  22. 05/08/2022 - Veg growers, rural crime, gooseberries

    Vegetable growing costs, rural crime, gooseberries.

  23. Farm Payment extension, Short farm tenancies, Seasonal worker folk song

    Farms in 'higher level' environmental schemes can keep claiming for five years.

  24. 03/08/2022 - Soil Health, Tenant Farmers, Dry Farms

    Calls to change the way soil health is measured, plus how dry weather is affecting crops.

  25. 02/08/2022 - Tenant farmers, Agri-environment study, Carbon-neutral eggs

    A 10-year study into whether environmental schemes affect farm yields is published.

  26. 01/08/22 - Robots on farms, Tenant farmers

    Charlotte Smith finds out about a review of farming robots, and discusses tenant farming.

  27. 30/07/22 Farming Today This Week: Global food crisis, sea eagles, dry weather

    We hear about dry fields in both the UK and Italy.

  28. 29/07/22 - Sea eagles, Dutch farmers' protest

    Sea eagles and Dutch farmers' protest.

  29. 28/07/2022 Music for pigs; drought in Italy; weir demolition

    Growing rice in a drought; and music, for pigs

  30. 27/07/22 - Australian farmers and global food crisis; UK water shortage; "Pint-sized Farmer"

    Anna Hill finds out how extreme weather in Australia is affecting the global food crisis.

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